Lamentations 3:5

“He hath builded against me, etc.] Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was: and compassed [me] with gall and travail; or “weariness” f53; the same with gall and wormwood, (<250319>Lamentations 3:19); as Jarchi observes. The sense is, he was surrounded with sorrow, affliction, and misery, which were as disagreeable as gall; or like poison that drank up his spirits, and made him weary of his life. Thus our Lord was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; perilupov, encompassed with sorrows, (<402638>Matthew 26:38). The Targum is, “he hath surrounded the city, and rooted up the heads of the…”

“builded--mounds, as against a besieged city, so as to allow none to escape (so Lam 3:7, Lam 3:9).”

“He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege. Gall and travail - Or “travail;” i. e. bitterness and weariness (through toil). return to 'Top of Page'”

“Builded - He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses. Lamentations 3:9”

“builded: Lam 3:7-9; Job 19:8 gall: Lam 3:19; Psa 69:21; Jer 8:14, Jer 9:15, Jer 23:15 Lamentations 3:6”